Slicer Mode - Novation TWITCH User Manual

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Slicer Mode

notE: Beat Grid must be enabled in the Setup menu (Setup > Playback > General) for Slicer
Mode to be active.
SLicEr ModE 1:
When Slicer Mode is selected (by pressing SLICER ), playback continues, but the timeline is
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divided into 8 equal length slices aligned to the Beat Grid, and you will note that the Performance
Pads illuminate in sequence and blocks of red highlight the waveform display, indicating each
slice in turn.
If you press and hold any Performance Pad, playback will loop round the slice corresponding to
the selected pad for as long as the pad is held; meanwhile, the playhead position will loop round
the current eight-slice block. When the Performance Pad is released, playback immediately
resumes from the current playhead position, but the Beat Grid ensures that the track's beat is
maintained. On the waveform display the "real" playhead position is indicated by a thin green
vertical line. This is where playback will resume when a Performance Pad is released.
Note that only one block of eight slices is active at any one time, and this block occupies the width
of the waveform display. Pressing a Performance Pad will perform the loop at the correspondingly-
numbered slice in the current block of eight.
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